HMSWeb & VALE: Renewed Partnership
Rio de Janeiro, August 24th, 2022 - Corporate contract for the
use of HMSWeb© technology as a management tool for the commissioning
engineering of VALE projects worldwide is renewed until 2025.
The excellence of HMSWeb© – Handover Management System as a quality
management tool, mechanical completion and commissioning engineering is
reiterated by VALE by renewing for more than three years the corporate
licensing agreement for HMSWeb software, including deployment,
configuration, training services, assisted operation and remote support,
for all the mining capital projects in the world.
“The renewal has been ongoing since we signed the first contract with VALE,
in September 2011. This demonstrates the solidity of this partnership,
which has been in place for about 15 years, as we have already participated
in VALE projects since 2007 (Conceição de Itabirito mine)”, celebrates
Luciano Gaete, director of HMSWeb Tecnologia da Informação.
Concurrent projects
Another fact that significantly demonstrates the excellence and
effectiveness of the solution, and the overcoming of expectations in dozens
of projects carried out since then, is the fact that the Forship Group has
around 30 ongoing projects at Vale. Among the most recent, within the
corporate standard contract for licensing, implementation, training and
support for HMSWeb, are three projects in the Tubarão (ES) complex, in the
areas of pelletizing, port and rail-environment.
“The implementation of the HMSWeb© rollouts will meet the commissioning
needs of these projects, ensuring the transfer of an operating system
and/or subsystem in an orderly and secure manner, guaranteeing its
operability in terms of safety requirements, performance, reliability and
traceability of the information”, explains Marcelo Dias, HMSWeb
Implementation and Support consultant, noting that a total of 23 users are
being trained, of which four are project administrators and 19 are
operators.
“The objective is to improve efficiency in the management of technical
documentation for commissioning, with the implementation of our tool for
the management, control of pending issues, certification and verification
of all activities related to this process, and the control of equipment
preservation, maintaining the traceability, quality and reliability of
information, in a centralized and shared way”, he concludes.
Another three contracts recently closed refer to projects underway in the
North region – the new bridge on the Tocantins River and the expansion of
Porto Norte, within the “240 MTPA Program”, a name in reference to VALE’s
goal of increasing by 10 MTPA the capacity at Estrada de Ferro Carajás
(EFC) – and in Minas Gerais, at the Bru